Comments on: Dummy Locomotive Fools Enemy Aviators http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/08/29/dummy-locomotive-fools-enemy-aviators/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:05:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jim http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/08/29/dummy-locomotive-fools-enemy-aviators/#comment-1055733 Jim Mon, 26 May 2008 03:52:28 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/08/29/dummy-locomotive-fools-enemy-aviators/#comment-1055733 I read an account one time of the Luftwaffe going to great pains to build a dummy wooden airfield, complete with a runway, hangars, air defenses, vehicles, etc. Thing of it was that Allied intelligence had been wise to them the whole time, and did precisely nothing to stop them. Once the Germans were finished their new airfield, the RAF sent (in a typical display of English humour) a Mosquito over, which circled a time or two and then attacked, with a wooden bomb. So, I guess you can fool all the people some of the time, and all of the people some of the time. I read an account one time of the Luftwaffe going to great pains to build a dummy wooden airfield, complete with a runway, hangars, air defenses, vehicles, etc. Thing of it was that Allied intelligence had been wise to them the whole time, and did precisely nothing to stop them. Once the Germans were finished their new airfield, the RAF sent (in a typical display of English humour) a Mosquito over, which circled a time or two and then attacked, with a wooden bomb. So, I guess you can fool all the people some of the time, and all of the people some of the time.

]]> By: Julie http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/08/29/dummy-locomotive-fools-enemy-aviators/#comment-446840 Julie Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:43:07 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/08/29/dummy-locomotive-fools-enemy-aviators/#comment-446840 Taggart: I got it! I got it! Hedley: You do? Taggart: We'll work up a "Number 6" on 'em. Hedley: "Number 6"? I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that one... Taggart: Well, that's where we go a-ridin' into town, a whompin' and whoopin' every livin' train that moves within an inch of its life Taggart: I got it! I got it!

Hedley: You do?

Taggart: We’ll work up a “Number 6″ on ‘em.

Hedley: “Number 6″? I’m afraid I’m not familiar with that one…

Taggart: Well, that’s where we go a-ridin’ into town, a whompin’ and whoopin’ every livin’ train that moves within an inch of its life

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